Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] x86,nvdimm,kexec: Use walk_iomem_res_desc() for iomem search

[Toshi Kani]

+ cc: kexec list

On 12/26/2015 3:38 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 03:09:23PM -0700, Toshi Kani wrote:
> > Change to call walk_iomem_res_desc() for searching resource entries
> > with the following names:
> >   "ACPI Tables"
> >   "ACPI Non-volatile Storage"
> >   "Persistent Memory (legacy)"
> >   "Crash kernel"
> >
> > Note, the caller of walk_iomem_res() with "GART" is left unchanged
> > because this entry may be initialized by out-of-tree drivers, which
> > do not have 'desc' set to IORES_DESC_GART.
>
> There's this out-of-tree bogus argument again. :\
>
> Why do we care about out-of-tree drivers?
>
> You can just as well fix the "GART" case too and kill walk_iomem_res()
> altogether...

Right, but I do not see any "GART" case in the upstream code, so I 
cannot change it...

Thanks,
-Toshi
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